Bartók's fiendishly diffcult Second Piano Concerto serves as the centerpiece of Stefan Blunier's program, with famed, multi-award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet as soloist. Framing this popular concerto by a Hungarian are lesser-known works by Viennese composers. Anton Webern's tone poem Im Sommerwind (In the Summer Wind), was written by a twenty-year -old youth in 1904 and suffused with post-Wagnerian Romanticism. It describes a summer day in the country. After intermission comes Brahms's longest purely orchestral work, the fifty-minute, six-movement Serenade No. 1, music of prevailing cheerfulness that can stand proudly beside the composer's symphonies as his first completed orchestral composition.